For his debut on Warner Classics, the 17-year-old pianist Yoav Levanon has chosen a demanding programme of works by Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Schumann. Liszt’s mighty Sonata in B minor forms the centrepiece of A Monument for Beethoven, an album honouring the four composers’ contribution to fundraising for a ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Isabel Vinardell, vocals and dance, and Isabelle Laudenbach, guitar and backing vocals, after their experiences with other bands of the Barcelona music scene (Cheb Balowski and Las Migas), are now heading towards this shared path. With a first album, A Solas (Chesapik, 2016), which they presented on national and ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
An electric journey between Africa, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. “On their first official album Rivers From Ogun, the group Ticora exist at the confluence of Afrobeat, highlife and jazz. The project navigates between music from the African continent, the Indian Ocean and the ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Schumann: Novelleten & Gesänge der Frühe
Schumann was twenty-eight years old when he composed in 1838 a cycle of eight pieces for piano, the Novelletten (Novelettes) op.21. This impressive, highly virtuosic set was dedicated to the pianist Adolf von Henselt, whose spectacular playing and technique were often compared to those ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
“What if a woman wrote the song?” This question drives a recital of songs by female composers performed by soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware. Opening with works by Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer (including her setting of the ballad Erlkönig ), this recital weaves stories of women’s experience with fantastic tales of ...
Composer: Clara Schumann (1819–1896), Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979), Emilie Mayer (1812–1883), Kathleen Tagg (1977)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Johannes Moser, Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead, Michael Fabiano, Christopher Jacobson, Arabella Steinbacher, Alasdair Beatson, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Adès, Sanford Sylvan, Matt Haimovitz, Eric Vloeimans, Jasper van Hulten, Gulli Gudmundsson, Michelle Breedt, Peter Auty, John Hancock, Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Iestyn Davies, Sarah Connolly ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Finally, Stone Broken will release their dynamic new studio album, "Revelation". Born from a desire to push themselves into new realms of musical creativity, Revelation sees Stone Broken storming into rock’s big leagues. Having partnered with award-winning producer and former SikTh guitarist, Dan Weller (Enter Shikari, Holding Absence, Bury Tomorrow) back in early 2019, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Hindemith, Poulenc & Bartók: Violin Sonatas
For your debut album, what motivated you to choose a rather difficult program with works by Hindemith, Bartók, and Poulenc? Are they currently your favorite composers? Have you performed these works often in recitals? As an artist, I find it fascinating to observe how composers reacted to current affairs: whenever ...
Composer: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Frerichs: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
For pianist and composer Rembrandt Frerichs (1977), a new musical adventure began when viola player Michael Gieler invited him for an open conversation. Gieler is a solo violist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and leader of the IJ-Salon series, a cross-border ‘playground’ of chamber music with musicians of the Royal ...
Composer: Rembrandt Frerichs (1977)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Cities and Deserts started as fragments of songs written by Gabriel Zucker primarily in New York City during 2018 and 2019. It became a completed suite of music in 2020, in the New Mexico desert, at the height of the Covid 19 pandemic. The album features pianist Gabriel Zucker and percussionist Attila Gyarfas. Attila Gyárfás and Gabriel Zucker have been making music since they met in 2017 in New York. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Isolation, nostalgia, a sense of not belonging, and living in the in-between are themes that have long resided in Roxana Amed’s songs. The Argentinean singer/songwriter’s latest full-length, Ontology, released by Sony Music Latin, is the culmination of a six-year journey filled with similar ruminations, leading Amed to reaffirm a musical ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Their recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is the long-awaited sister-recording to Teodor Currentzis’ and musicAeterna’s Beethoven Symphony No. 5 album. Recorded at the Vienna Konzerthaus in August 2018, both albums are the Russia-based musicians’ seminal ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Meridian 71 is a cross-cultural music project created and led by Giuseppe since 2012. The project name comes from Boston's longitude: the 71st meridian that passes precisely through the eastern part of the city. Their third album features original compositions by Giuseppe who performs with an eclectic and multicultural ensemble of well- ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Human Condition (Deluxe Edition)
As the world plummeted into the COVID-19 pandemic, the four members of Black Stone Cherry were nestled deep in the woods of Kentucky, scrambling to complete their 7th album. There, they could feel the disease closing in as they watched the news daily, and it became apparent the album they were finishing featured lyrics that were eerily prescient. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
James leads a cast of London’s finest improvisers: pianist Bruno Heinen (Denys Baptiste); bassist Tom McCredie (Elliot Galvin); and drummer Shane Forbes (Empirical). They play James' compositions which draw influences from the variety of musical worlds he traverses; from jazz, to chamber music, to contemporary folk. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
For this program, Duo Diversitas has selected or created sophisticated arrangements that embody virtuosity and musical expression. In focusing on great composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, Marisa Minder and Evgeniya Spalinger explore the artistic refinement, lyrical grace and technical sophistication of the guitar and flute. The one original work for this combination is Hans Haug's ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893), Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Hans Haug (1900-1967)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Arnold, Schönberger & Gipps: Horn Concertos
This recording not only celebrates multiple centenaries of Malcolm Arnold, Ruth Gipps and Dennis Brain (the dedicatee of the Arnold concerto) who were all born in 1921 - but also three composers whose musical language and worlds bear striking similarities. Both Arnold and Gipps were writing at a time when the grain of musical fashion was going against them. ...
Composer: Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), Ruth Gipps (1921-1999), Arnold Schönberger (1874-1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
For years, the sounds of our instruments – piano and harp – have intermingled every Wednesday in the music school where we teach. We only had one hallway to cross to form a duo … And it was done in 2016 during the teachers’ concert. Thus was born the Duo Emaho (meaning wonder in Tibetan). ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
After releasing their vibrant fifth studio album,Viridian in 2020, TEMPERANCE – maestros of modern melodic/symphonic metal delight their devotees with the persuasivnew offering Diamanti, to be released on November 19, 2021 via Napalm Records. With Diamanti, the exceptionally skilled Italian outfit once again showcases their ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Recordings (Remastered)
Continuing Contemporary Records’ 70th anniversary celebration, Craft Recordings is proud to announce the release of the double album, "Ornette Coleman – Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary". Largely avoided by his colleagues on the L.A. jazz scene in the late 1950s, Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) found an open door at Contemporary Records, where the label’s founder Lester Koenig was intrigued by his melodic sensibility and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
